Friday, 30 January 2015

It's rather amazing how Jung’s concept of Synchronicity can affect
one’s creative life - when I accidentally met Nelson Adams in
Fredericton through a friend, I had no idea he would restart my film
career since I had long before self terminated it due to the tiresome,
annoying control others had of my work. But he did and as they say the
rest is my history as once again I’m making films or rather videos. All
due to the advent of Nelson and digital technology – now that’s a living
example of sychronicity.

Like many independent filmmakers, I've always admired artists who’s
work is very personal; from beginning to end, they create it according
to their own self-awareness … very admirable indeed thought I.

"I wish filmmaking was like
that," I often thought… well with digital it is – no question. We now
can personally ‘make a movie’ like an artist ‘makes a painting’ i.e.
completely alone using all our talents and skills to arrive at our
personal view of the subject through our world experience. Not tainted
by the big shots, the boys in the back room, the majors, the
broadcasters, etc., etc...

We can arrive at a finished creative piece of ‘art,’ and then screen
it on Youtube or Vimeo. This freedom is astounding for me and all
independent, highly creative people who dislike to compromise their
creations. So for the past few years I’m back at it – making my movies
using digital technology.

The second occurrence that shaped my present ‘way’ of looking at
movies happened in a manner that could be construed as negative but I
saw it as a positive – a lesson of learning in the modern age. I halted
my movie making to review this 21st century way of achieving one’s art.

We all want to make feature fiction films not shorts, not docs. We
want to see our movies in theatres and get the recognition and get big
compensation. Well of course that was my folly as well.

Then through a series of mishaps, I learned that it was shorts and
short docs that one can make like an artist, not the big features which
depend so much on so many, but videos - short docs were the answer.

When cancer struck me again last summer, I decided to put that theory
into practice and make a series of 5 or 6 short docs fast and furious
using digital technology. Then while convalescing from surgery and 42
days of radiation, I would use my time completing those shorts while I
upgraded my skills using a great professional editing software called
FinalCutPro7.

So far I’ve managed to put 4 shorts ‘in the can’ as we used to say in
the film world and have two more to complete. I should mention they are
such fun to make… such fun and after all life lived fully is the best
life of all.

To view Peter Evanchuck's recent docs called Peter’s shorts please go to: http://www.movieshandmade.com and scroll down to the bottom of our web page where you will see the posters and the links to youtube.

Thursday, 15 January 2015

ahhh it's a shock to be told that one's cancer has returned - especially after a couple years back i was told it was safe that it would not re-occur but it has... so been doing multiple tests,scans, etc and all point to a removal of the large tumours using surgery ( throat and thorax two surgical teams like that first time in 2007 ) meanwhile, i'm rushing along making these little shorts 'cause after the surgery i have daily radiation for 42 days ... and i'm not sure how active i'll be l thus, if i can think straight i can use these short to hone my skills on FCPro7

so far i've completed 3 shorts and hope to do a total of 6 which'll keep me totally busy during my convalescing ... good luck to me and to all those who suffer from the same illness.